Hello all, On Tuesday night I allowed yum to update (amongst other things) the kernel and the nvidia driver on my Fedora14 desktop. Aug 23 20:02:14 Updated: nvidia-xconfig-1.0-9.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:26 Updated: nvidia-settings-1.0-11.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:34 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-280.13-1.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:35 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-280.13-2.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:37 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-280.13-1.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:40 Installed: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686-280.13-2.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:42 Updated: 1:akmod-nvidia-280.13-2.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:04:43 Erased: kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:25 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:57 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:04:05 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686 Despite having done this countless times before, I had a funny feeling that something was about to go wrong. Sure enough, after a reboot, I found that I could not log in to my gnome desktop. When I try, it starts to build the gnome desktop, gets as far as loading the background, sometimes some of the icons, and then freezes. I have a mouse pointer, but nothing to click on. There is no option but to CTRL-ALT-F2 to a terminal, log in as root and reboot the machine. I can however log in as a different user. This works absolutely fine. The only difference between my account and the other user's account is that I have desktop effects enabled on mine. (Just the "workspace on a cube" option - the "wobbly windows" make me feel seasick). Naturally I have root access (either from a terminal, or from an xterm in another user's account). My questions: 1) Is it possible to disable the wobbly windows desktop effect from the command line? If so, how? 2) Does anybody else have this problem? 3) Is there a fix? 4) Should I report a bug? If so, against what, and to whom? Please help me to get back into my desktop! Thanks Mark -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
